Tales of Mystery and Imagination [22 stories]

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: short stories, American fiction, burial vaults, shrouds, short story, plagues, gallows, fear, Mystery and detective stories, Ratiocination, Gothic fiction, unreliable narrators, Crime fiction, heroic romances, mountaineering, tuberculosis, Horror stories, Crime, nobility, premature burial, American detective and mystery stories, Horror tales, self-hatred, Juvenile audience, pseudoscience, daggers, catalepsy, American children's stories, American Horror tales, Horror, Hematidrosis, hoaxes, tarns, American Short stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, first-person narrative, unconsciousness, Murder, abbeys, Hyperesthesia, Homicide, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), silence, crypts, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, Hypnagogia, maces, Taphophobia, hypnotism, Mesmerism, monograms, Revenge, psychogenic death, American literature, cats, animal magnetism, knights, masquerade balls, pendulums, Juvenile fiction, embedded narrative, suspense, Spanish Inquisition, vortex, narration, whirlpools, Classic Literature, phobias, Horror fiction, berths, Detective and mystery stories, hysteria

Description: Contains: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) Gold-Bug Ligeia Loss of Breath Man of the Crowd [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) MS. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Roget Oblong Box Oval Portrait Pit and the Pendulum [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) Shadow [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Some Words with a Mummy [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)